Researchers in China achieved a milestone by directly dating a fossilized dinosaur egg at 85.9 million years old, marking a first in paleontology. Using carbonate uranium-lead (U-Pb) dating, ...

An unprecedented fossil of a baby dinosaur curled up perfectly inside its egg is shedding more light on the links between dinosaurs and birds. The 70-million-year-old fossil preserves the embryonic ...

Crystals hidden inside dinosaur eggs at a famous fossil site are giving scientists a chance to do something that’s long proven elusive: figure out how old the ancient nests really are. Finding these ...

It’s hard to imagine that fierce dinosaurs once emerged from small, fragile eggs. And it may be even harder to imagine that some of those eggs, when fossilized, could have been preserved for tens of ...

Push aside imagery of the towering Tyrannosaurus rex because the smallest-ever dinosaur eggs have been unearthed and represent an all new type of dinosaur species. The most complete egg, which also ...

Deep in Argentina’s Patagonia, scientists uncovered a miracle - a perfectly preserved 70-million-year-old dinosaur egg. Half pink, half white, it may hold an embryo inside, offering a direct glimpse ...

Many of the marvels of the natural world have been captured in a selection of images taken by researchers across the globe in a photography competition. The pictures reveal a fascinating view of ...